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Acoustic Signal Classification of Breathing Movements to Virtually Aid Breath Regulation
Abstract—Monitoring breath and identifying breathing movementshavesettledimportanceinmanybiomedicalresearchareas, especially in the treatment of those with breathing disorders, e.g., lungcancerpatients.Moreover,virtualreality(VR)revolutionand their implementations on ubiquitous hand-held devices have a lot ofimplications,whichcouldbeusedasasimulationtechnologyfor healing purposes. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to detectandclassifybreathingmovements.TheoverallVRframework isintendedtoencouragethesubjectsregulatetheirbreathbyclassifying the breathing movements in real time. This paper focuses on a portion of the overall VR framework that deals with classifying the acoustic signal of respiration movements. We employ Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) along with speech segmentation techniques using voice activity detection and linear thresholding to the acoustic signal of breath captured using a microphone to depict the differences between inhale and exhale in frequency domain. For every subject, 13 MFCCs of all voiced segmentsarecomputedandplotted.Theinhaleandexhalephasesare differentiated using the sixth MFCC order, which carries important classification information. Experimental results on a number of individuals verify our proposed classification methodology.
Index Terms—Acoustic signal of breath, exhale, inhale, Melfrequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), segmentation, threshold, voice activity detection (VAD).
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